Selected Working Papers:
- Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith. 2013. Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2229349)
- Ma, Liye, Alan Montgomery, Michael D. Smith, Param Singh. 2013. Pre-Release Movie Piracy and Box Office Sales: Estimates and Policy Implications. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1782924)
- Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang, Yi Zhang. 2012. Analysis of the Potential Market for Out-of-Print eBooks. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2141422)
- Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang. 2012. Assessing the Academic Literature Regarding the Impact of Media Piracy on Sales. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2132153)
- Agarwal, Ashish, Kartik Hosanagar, Michael D. Smith. 2012. Sponsored Search: How Organic Results Impact Sponsored Search Advertising Performance. (http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1989590)
- Hu, Yu, Michael D. Smith. 2012. The Impact of eBook Distribution on Print Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1966115)
- Kumar, Anuj, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2012. Information Discovery and the Long Tail of Motion Picture Content. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1871090)
- Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu Hu, Michael Smith. 2012. The Longer Tail: The Changing Shape of Amazon’s Sales Distribution Curve. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1679991)
Refereed Journal Articles:
- Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang, Siwen Chen. 2013. The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France. Journal of Industrial Economics. Forthcoming.
- Zentner, Alejandro, Michael D. Smith, Cuneyd Kaya. 2013. How Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online. Management Science. Forthcoming.
- Kemerer, Chris F., Charles Z. Liu, Michael D. Smith. 2013. Strategies for Tomorrow’s ‘Winners-Take-Some’ Digital Goods Markets. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. Forthcoming (May).
- Liu, Charles, Chris Kemerer, Sandra Slaughter, Michael D. Smith. 2012. Standards Competition in the Presence of Digital Conversion Technology: An Empirical Analysis of the Flash Memory Card Market. Information Systems Research, 36(3) 921-942..
- Agarwal, Ashish, Kartik Hosanagar, Michael D. Smith. 2011. Location, Location, Location: An Analysis of Profitability and Position in Online Advertising Markets. Journal of Marketing Research, 48 1057-1073.
- Garg, Rajiv, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2011. Measuring Information Diffusion in an Online Community. Journal of Management Information Systems, 28(2), 11-37.
- Liu, Charles, Esther Gal-Or, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael D. Smith. 2011. Compatibility and Proprietary Standards: The Impact of Conversion Technologies in It-Markets with Network Effects. Information Systems Research. 22(1) 188-207.
- Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2010. Long Tails and Superstars: The Effect of IT on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns. Information Systems Research 20th Anniversary Special Issue. 21(4) 736-747.
Danaher, Brett, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2010. Converting Pirates without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy. Marketing Science. 29(6) 1138-1151.
Tang, Zhulei, Alan Montgomery, Michael D. Smith. 2010. The Impact of Shopbot Use on Prices and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Online Book Retailing. International Journal of Industrial Organization. 28 579-590.
Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang. 2010. Piracy or Promotion? The Impact of Broadband Internet Penetration on DVD Sales. Information Economics and Policy, Special Issue on the Economics of Digital Piracy. 21 289-298. - Brynjolfsson, Erik, Astrid A. Dick, Michael D. Smith. 2010. A Nearly Perfect Market? Differentiation Versus Price in Consumer Choice. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 8(1) 1-33.
- Montgomery, Alan M., Michael D. Smith. 2009. Prospects for Personalization on the Internet. Journal of Interactive Marketing. 23(2) 130-137.
- Smith, Michael, Rahul Telang. 2009. Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 33(2) 312-338. (an audio and video version of a talk on this paper is available in the Heinz School’s podcast feed)
- Hosanagar, Kartik, John Chuang, Krishnan, Ramayya, Michael D. Smith. 2008. Optimal Pricing of Content Delivery Network (CDN) Services. Management Science, 54(9) 1579-1593.
- Tang, Zhulei, Yu Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2007. Gaining Trust Through Online Privacy Protection: Self Regulation, Mandatory Standards, or Caveat Emptor. Journal of Management Information Systems, 24(4) 152-173.
- Krishnan, Ramayya, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2007. Digital Business Models for Peer-to-Peer Networks: Analysis and Economic Issues. Review of Network Economics, 6(2) 194-213.
- Ghose, Anindya, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2006. Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact. Information Systems Research, 17(1) 3-19. (First Runner-up for ISR’s 2006 Best Published Paper Award.)
- Asvanund, Atip, Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael Smith. 2004. An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-To-Peer Music Sharing Networks. Information Systems Research, 15(2) 155-174.
- Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu "Jeffrey" Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2003. Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety. Management Science, 49(11) 1580-1596.
- Krishnan, Ramayya, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2003. The Economics of Peer-to-Peer Networks. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications, 5(3) 31-44.
- Smith, Michael D. 2002. The Impact of Shopbots on Electronic Markets. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 30(4) 442-450.
- Smith, Michael D., Erik Brynjolfsson. 2001. Customer Decision Making at an Internet Shopbot: Brand Still Matters. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 49(4) 541-558.
- Brynjolfsson, Erik, Michael D. Smith. 2000. Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers. Management Science, 46(4) 563-585.
Professional Journals:
- Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang. 2012. Why Digital Media Require A Strategic Rethink. Harvard Business Review. Idea Watch, October, 2.
- Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu "Jeffrey" Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2006. From Niches to Riches: The Anatomy of the Long Tail. Sloan Management Review, 47(4) 67-71.
Book Chapters:
- Clay,Karen, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith. 2001. The Great Experiment: Pricing on the Internet. Lowry, Cherrington, and Watson, eds. Handbook of Electronic Commerce in Business and Society. CRC Press, New York, 139-152.
- Smith, Michael D., Joseph Bailey, Erik Brynjolfsson. 2000. Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment, Brynjolfsson and Kahin eds. Understanding the Digital Economy, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 99-136.
Patent:
- Smith, Michael, Allen Bonde, Gregory Catherine, Rosemarie Napolitano, Diane Wolfe. 1998. "Fuzzy logic-based evidence fusion tool for network analysis," U.S. Patent Number 5,787,235.